The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of …

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The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. ✨ Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)
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